Roseburg review. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 1885-1920, 1887-03-18
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ways you speak, the ways you act, the
ways you move, the ways you eat, are j,
your. manners. What you do with ,
your hat is part Of your manners. |
do not mean hanging it up, | mean
taking it of or keeping it on. Every
body has to have some kind Of man
ners, because everybody has to have
some kind Of manners; | will men
ton them. Good ones aud bad ones.
Your face looks better when you are
having good manners than when you
are having bad ones. ! have heard OF
six kinds Of bad manners, and one
more. | will mention them. Pig
manners, one; bear manners, two; don
key manners, three; cock-a doodiedoo
manners. four; post manners, five; COW
in-the-parlor manners, six.
First-pig manners-and if you
want to know what they are, go and
look in the rigs pen when their dinner
is being put into their trough. Every
piggy hurries to get the most, and get
the best. Every piggy looks out for
itself, and does not care for the other
ones. Children that have pig man
ners are the kind that want to be
helped at meal times, and want the
best things for themselves, and the
biggest pieces. They look out for.
themselves, and do not care abou
other people getting any thing good.
Second-bear manners. Children
that have bear manners are the kind
that are gruff, and grum, and growly.
They have cross-looking faces, and
sometimes stick their lips out, and
snarl, and gro vi, and are most always
grumbling and growing about some
thing they want to do or they don't
want to do. They talk in this way:
"Find my hat!" "I want to go out" +"
''Open the door, 81 want something
to eatl' and never think of please or
a thank you, and they get cross very
often, and look cross.
Third-donkey manners. Children
that have donkey manners are the
kind that want to do just what they
want to do, and nothing else, no mat
ter how much you may ask them and
coax them If you ask them to move,
they stay still. If you ask them to
stay still. they move. If you ask
them to keep quiet, they make a noise.
If you ask them to make a noise, they
keep quiet. , If you ask them to so on
an errahd, they say, "Don't want to!''
or 81 amt going to- and the worst
kind say, 81 will" and l wont"
When they are playing, they never
will do what the others want to, but
only what they themselves want to-"
Fourth--post manners, Children
who have post manners are the kind
that do not answer when they are
spoken to, any more than post would.
If visitor says, GLOW DO you do!" OF
'Do you like TO play tagl" or, "Do
you like picturesP or butterflies, OF
any thing, they stand still as post
and do not speak; but maybe if you
should ask If they liked candy they
would speak one word, and | guess it
would be yes.
Fifth-cock. a-doodle-doo manners.
The children that have cock-a doodle
doc manners are the kind that feel bic
and act so. When rooster struts
around among the hens he acts as If he
felt SO big he did not know what tc
do, and sometimes he seems to Feel SC
big that he has to get up on a fence
and clap his wings, ana crow cocK-a
doodle dooi Sometimes there'u be a
lot of fellows playing, and cock-a
doodle-doo fellow will come there, ant
he'll act as if he thought he knew tht
right way to do everything better thar
everybody, and he'll give them tht
rules, and he'll strut around like ;
rooster; and in his house he does the
same way to his mother and the Other
grown-up ones, and ones that are no
grown up. That ki2d of fellow
ought to stand up on the fence ant
clap his wings-no, I mean his elbow:
and crow, cock-a doodle leo,
know better than you
Sixth-cow-in-the-parlor manners.
Children that have cow-in the-parlol
manners are the kind that are ALWAYS
getting in somebody's way, or pushing
themselves III between people, or going
in front of people, or stepping Oh some
Lody's feet, OF on bottoms of ladies
clothes, OF leaning against people, ol
stumbling over things, or humping
against the furniture, or against peo
pie, or tipping over their own chains
or knocking down vase, or work
bask ket, OF tumbler of water. They
are as clumsy as cow in parlor, ant
90 not mind what they are about an,
more than a COW in the parlor wou,t